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"1st Amendment Under Siege" Recently last year (May,2016) Arkansas Department of Correction Czarina Wendy Kelly issued a rather fastidious policy that cited newspaper clippings would be banned from prisoner mail, classifying them as (wait for it - with bated breath) "contraband"!? According [ineligible] to ADC (Ay, Carumba! Arkansas Department of Corruption) policy, they are... concerned about drug smuggling but said vitiated policy does not affect newspapers sent directly...

h i Cja^ 4993 W o r d Essay At the age of sixteen I was incarcerated for First Degree Murder and later sentenced to 77-years in prison. There seemed to be httle consideration of the affects it would have on a teenager to be housed with adults. Fortunately for me I was a fighter. There is a strange unwritten rule in prison that if somebody is willing to stick up for himself from day one then other prisoners will be willing to help him. If you don't stand up for yourself then you are left ...

7 Question Presidential Voting Quiz Before we exercise our rights to aid in the Presidential voting process or exercise our right to vote for our next president. let us take a quick quiz to see who is better suitable to say these words and fulfill these roles as President. Presidential Oath of Office Which Presidential candidate you think is better capable of reciting and living up to these words? "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United S...

"7" Thing Bill Clinton Did for African American Communities By: Honest Willie Worley Jr, Prison Intelligence Cartoonist/Journalist Every once in awhile there comes along a political figure that possess the ability to seduce the masses. Their approach is as smooth as water energizing everyone with a false sense of hydration. We thirst for this political hydration, and before dehydration can kick in, the crinch our political thirst with seductive politics. Bill Clinton was the master ...

Not only do prisoners being release from North Carolina prisons have an obligation to utilize their voting rights, and encouraging their family and friends to do the same. They also have a very special election that is mandatory to their well being. "Judicial election." Approximately a week before North Carolina prisoners are released, their city or county law enforcement, are aware of the prisoners release. At this point the ex-felon becomes prey to a racial criminal justice system...

A da in the SHU I awake this morning to my pitiful predicament. The instant my eyes popped open I shuddered from the reality of harsh environment. Suddenly I stood and move to the center of the of the cell to perform a simple test. Sure enough standing in the [modd?] middle I was able to touch opposent walls with outstretched arms. The cell was about about eight by five. Five feet wide and eight feet long. A cement box smaller than the size of a home bath room. The cement walls, floors, and c...

A Day in the Life of Time My name is Eric. I was born and raised in St.Louis, but for the past 34 years I have been in prison in Missouri. I have been in the South East Correctional Center at Charleston, Missouri for seven years now. When I was 21, I was sentenced to 50 years without the possibility of parole for killing a young man who was trying to rob my younger brother. I did not have a prison record. Very few people have any idea what it is like to be incarcerated for decades. Here is wh...

A Lesson in Language Incarceration has forced me to postpone my plans of travelling to the continents of Europe and Asia. Six years into a twenty year sentence for manslaughter, watching Globe Trekker on PBS or flipping through vacation mags in the prison library is the closest I get. My travels into Quebec and Mexico taught me that every street sign, television or radio program, menu, and all product packaging provides a lesson in language. Simply going about a regular routine in a foreign l...

A Letter to Law-Enforcement Executives My name is Willie Worley Jr. I consider myself a servant of the people as the minister of Self-Defense of National Intelligence for African American Communities 3rd Party Black Panthers. Since my reign I have made it my number one goal to point to the facts of the many dysfunctions that plague our communities both African and caucasian Americans. I have focused on the causes of the social derangements that has effected our nations racial communication li...

A Perspective on Prison By Michael B. Beverley When I was a boy, my mother often said that one-day people would no longer have names, we would be known only by a number. I know she didn’t mean what I would bring upon myself, yet it is not entirely disingenuous to say I am now known as 78552. That is my inmate ID within the New Hampshire state prison system. However, I would rather be remembered as Michael. Though I am now a felon, it wasn’t how my life began. I was the third of eight children...

A Renaissance by Stephen Whetzel Page 1 of 12 It started with a visit to the psychologist. Behind the ominous, gray, concrete wall surrounding the Indiana State Reformatory, not many areas existed where one could go to in order to escape the late summer heat. That old maximum-security prison, a place born of a harsher time, was never known for comforts. Therefore, whether or not I felt the need for a counseling session with Eric, my psychologist and substance abuse counselor, I looked forward...

A Tour Through The Circles of Hell By Patrick O'Shea Correction office David Hale was horrified by the barbaric and brutal actions of his fellow officers. "I can't describe it to you --I've never seen beatings like that," he recalled. "At least 50 guys got it, maybe more. I seen them carry one inmate down the hall with a guard on each leg and one on each arm. The assistant warden comes down the hall and grabs the inmate's testicles and starts yanking on them...

A.V.P. How can violence be reduced in prison? Well, in my own opinion, the answer is simple: support the "Alternative to Violence Project!" This program, started by Quaker's back in the late 1970's right here at Green Haven Correctional Facility, is one which is now being used to combat the spread and use of violence all over the world. The Alternative to Violence Project (from this point on, to be referred to as A.V.P.) is an interactive workshop, that gives insight to it...

Are North Carolina Prison Guards Confiscating Green Dots And Cashing Them In? By:Honest Willie Worley Jr. What if you were in prison, and you were talking to your girlfriend in California. She had just gave you a 14 digit refill pack number to buy your mother some flowers for mother's day. After talking to your girlfriend you hang up the phone, put the green dot numbers in your locker, and go take a shower. As you are getting out of the shower, heading back to your bed area, a prison gua...

Are We Justified in using Prisons? I came to prison at a young age. At that time in my life it was my belief that I deserved to be in prison. In fact it was my belief back then that I did not deserve to live because of the harm my actions had caused to other people. Because I was so young I held a lot of misconceptions about what prison was actually for. I thought and and was lead to believe by my judge, lawyer and family, that I would come to prison and be given the opportunity and chance to...

Michael Rhynes Attica on My Mind My day begins by getting up before the contemporary version of Pavlov's bell rings, a half hour before count, which starts at 7:00 AM. While performing my morning ritual of washing my face, brushing my teeth, and combing my hair, with such mindless devotion it would send a marine sergeant into authoritarian fits of glee, I subconsciously search for a way to affirm my humanity. The breakfast list is being taken, and naturally I sign up. Every morning for t...

1-11-2019 Before I think to write anything on this paper I pray that whomever's attention I'm getting by taking such chance to get your attention is doing alright! Whereas, my name is as previously stated above Charles Anthony Paschal Jr., and I'm currently serving my 17th year straight in the Georgia Department of Corrections off a 30 years total prison sentence! My reason and purpose for taking a chance to get whomever's attention I'm getting is to share an essay ab...

11-20-2018 Before I think to write anything on this paper my name is Charles Anthony Paschal Jr., and I have been incarcerated 17 years straight off of a 30 year sentence, and the reason I'm currently taking a chance to get anyones' attention that can understand my unthought of words, "no matter what you're serving in life your only confines are the ones that you allow to be your confines!" Freedom is only a eight letter word, and if you allow others' judgements ...

Being of Light by J.D. Frandsen Meditation and transcendence inside Administrative Segregation "The world of every day life cannot ever be taken as something personal that has power over us, something that could make us, or destroy us, because man's battlefield is not in his strife with the world around him. His battlefield is over the horizon, in an area which is unthinkable for an average man, the area where man ceases to be a man."- Juan Matus. The cell door slams, gloved ha...

Betrayal By Larry “Rocky " Harris Everyday across America, the innocent are sent to prison. This is an ugly fact that most citizens of this great country do not want to deal with. It is not a topic that will come up over cocktails with friends. I The segment of the American population involved in this nightmare is usually the poor, speciﬁcally a poor man sold out by the public defender appointed to the criminal case. The case I write about falls into this category: a poor man raising his...

Black Panthers Role As A Third Party Although 3rd parties in the past focuses were not much in favor of addressing concerns of African American Communities. Third Parties participation in stigmatism was less damaging to our communities then the larger two parties. The history of both major parties continue to alter the progress of our communities. Not to say that both parties do not produce noteworthy candidates, independent or 3rd parties give you better leverage and control to support elect...

"Blue Bird" by Jason Gallegos The time was drawing near for my departure. I had 13 months built up in the countyjail. I was convicted and sentenced to prison, and I was ready to leave, to start serving out my long-term sentence in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Division. Before my departure, I had the privilege to be laced up by the old-school veterans that had already been in and out of the system most of their adult lives. These convicts prided themselves as they explain...